deferral needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deferral is the highest-scoring word from deferral, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in deferral — and it is deferral itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deferral produces exactly one seven-letter word: federal. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deferral turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, dealer and dearer. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including deafer, feared and deflea.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferral. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freer and refer. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including defer, fader and fared.
Rearranging the letters in deferral produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deaf and deal. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and fled.
Unscrambling deferral turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and elf. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferral. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in deferral plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deferral and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
deferral is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for deferral. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
deferral is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deferral unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deferral, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deferral earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in deferral produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 19 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.